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VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Ventresco
Book Image

VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Ventresco

Overview of this book

If you want a more detailed explanation concerning the implementation of several different core features of VMware Horizon View, this is the book for you. Whether you are new to VMware Horizon View or an existing user, this book will provide you with the knowledge you need to successfully deploy several core features and get introduced to the latest features of version 6.0 as well.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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4. Managing VMware Horizon View with PowerCLI
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Index

Creating a network label specification


A network label specification is used to configure desktop pools that need to automatically place desktops on one of multiple available virtual machine networks, often for network capacity reasons. This feature is currently available only when using PowerCLI.

Getting ready

In this example, the vSphere cluster where your desktop desktops will be deployed has two virtual machine networks named VLAN10 and VLAN20, and each virtual machine network can support no more than 250 desktops. We are going to create a desktop pool that has 500 desktops. To do this using the desktop Manager Admin console, we will need two virtual desktop master images, one connected to each virtual machine network. You will then need to create two desktop pools, one for each virtual desktop master image.

How to do it…

When you use network label specification files, you need only one virtual desktop master image and one desktop pool. In this recipe, we will create network label specification...